Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/rebeccamwrites.bsky.social/post/3m6a62btty226
Here’s the dataset and their website if you are interested, there’s more games beyond Final Fantasy that they’ve looked at.
Main findings
- 35% of words were spoken by female characters.
- 29% of characters were female, which suggests the imbalance is driven by a lack of female characters.
- 94% of games had more male dialogue than female dialogue.
“I wish FF4 had more feeeeeemale (
) dialogue”
[A FINGER ON THE MONKEY’S PAW CURLS]
Seriously, though; what the hell is with Rosa’s abject lack of characterization? I guess you could blame the lack of space on the ROM, especially if some stuff was cut from the English translations, but even then I really doubt Ted Woolsey had all that much to work with. I’m not mad, just disappointed. Be better, 1990s Japan.